A blooming jellyfish in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 688-691

  Licandro, P ^a   Conway, D V P ^b   Yahia, M N Daly ^c   De Puelles, M L Fernandez ^d   Gasparini, S ^e   Hecq, J H ^f   Tranter, P ^a   Kirby, R R ^g  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^d INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Jellyfish blooms; Pelagia noctiluca; Plankton; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; JELLYFISH; PLANKTON; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPONGE; SURVEY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; PELAGIA NOCTILUCA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77956232106     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0150     Document Type: Article

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